One of the guardians of the Demon Hero, Ni Kuang

Ni Kuang (May 30, 1935), formerly known as Ni Cong, has used pen names including: Wesley, Sha Weng, Yue Chuan, Wei Li, Yi Qi, Hong Xin, and Wei Long. Ni Kuang is a Christian, born in Shanghai, China, and his ancestral home is Zhenhai, Zhejiang.

He fled to Hong Kong in 1957, moved to San Francisco in 1992, and returned to Hong Kong in 2007. A well-known science fiction writer and screenwriter, and known as one of the "Four Great Talents of Hong Kong", Ni Kuang has written a wide range of books, including weird novels and a small number of martial arts novels.

His works include "Wesley Series", "Yuan Zhenxia Series", "Black Woman Magnolia Series" and so on. In addition, Ni Kuang has also written more than 300 film scripts. From 1989 to 1990, he co-hosted the Asian Television talk show "No Defense Tonight" with Huang Zhan and Cai Lan.

In 1951, 16-year-old Ni Kuang left home in pursuit of utopian ideals, went north to enter the East China People's Revolutionary University for three months of training, then joined the Chinese People's Liberation Army and public security police, participated in land reform and control of the Huaihe River, and later went to Inner Mongolia to reclaim wasteland.

During his time in the army, he gradually realized that the various irrational behaviors of the Communist Party were completely different from the propaganda of equality in the world, and that there were many privileged classes running rampant in the army, and they had to report their thoughts and hold meetings to review everything, which made the freedom-loving Ni Kuang feel more and more dissatisfied and disappointed, and often argued with his superiors.

At the end of 1956, Ni Kuang was in the reclamation of Inner Mongolia. On a snowstorm to transport coal, he and several other soldiers dismantled a wooden bridge to make a fire to keep warm, but the secretary of the unit accused him of "sabotaging traffic" and was branded as a "counter-revolutionary" and placed under house arrest for several months.

In addition, the wolf dog he secretly raised bit the captain of the army, which was enough to sentence him to 10 years in prison, so he listened to the advice of his friends and fled to the north on horseback overnight. So I took a train to the south and arrived in Dalian. Then he took a boat to Shanghai, but no one dared to receive him at that time, so he had to continue to flee south, and went through great hardships. Many times, I relied on eating mice, ants, and cotton to feed myself. It took three months to reach Guangzhou. On the way, he also used his seal carving skills to hide through the customs defense, and only then successfully escaped from the mainland, and then passed through Macao. He was successfully smuggled into Hong Kong in July 1957.

After 14 years of absence, Ni Kuang, who immigrated to San Francisco in the United States, said that he had returned to Hong Kong because of political worries and fear, and after 14 years of absence from Hong Kong, he said that he could not bear the dull life there, and returned to Hong Kong, which he regarded as his hometown.

Ni Kuang's political orientation and writing thinking are closely related to his experience in the mainland when he was young. He said: When I was a child, my family was very poor, there were many brothers and sisters (two brothers, two younger brothers, one sister, one sister), there was no entertainment, the greatest pleasure was to read books, several famous Chinese novels, he had read them before the age of twelve, his favorite book at that time was "Mencius", and after entering middle school, he loved to read translated novels.

In the early days of his arrival in Hong Kong, Ni Kuang worked as a handyman in a factory, studied at a tertiary institution in the evening, and later submitted articles to Zhen Pao and Shang Bao Daily, where he was not only employed, but also hired by Zhen Pao as a proofreader, assistant editor, reporter and political columnist.

His first novel was about the CCP's land reform, called "Buried Alive", which was published in the Industrial and Commercial Daily at the end of 1957. The following year, Ni Kuang began to write martial arts novels under the pen name "Yue Chuan", and his early works included the story of the black heroine Magnolia, the story of the prodigal son Gundam, the story of the fairy hand Goofy, and the six-fingered qin demon.

In 1962, he began writing science fiction novels under the pseudonym "Wesley", which were serialized in the supplement of Ming Pao, and more than 140 Wesleyan novels have been published.

He said that he had written all kinds of literature except lyrics and advertising words. Including novels (martial arts, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, fantasy, pornography), essays, essays, columns, political commentaries, and movie scripts. Self-talk writing likes to play tricks and change themes the most, and dislikes self-repetition the most. He also revealed that at the peak of that year, the manuscript fee plus royalties exceeded 2 million Hong Kong dollars a year.

Ni Kuang, who is over 70 years old and once wrote 10,000 words a day, admitted that he had passed the peak of his writing, not because he didn't want to write, but because "he couldn't write, the quota had been exhausted" (the word quota comes from the work "Reckoning").

Writing made Ni Kuang famous, and he was once high-spirited, indulging in wine and wealth, and after embracing Christianity in 1986, he gradually got rid of various vices in life. In 2011, he joined the Hong Kong Fiction Club and became its Honorary President.

In the late 1960s, with the rise of martial arts films in Hong Kong, Ni Kuang turned to script writing. In the past ten years, Ni Kuang has written more than 400 film scripts, including "One-armed Knife" directed by Zhang Che. According to his own account, at his peak, he wrote 20,000 words a day, and 12 newspapers published his work.

Ni Kuang wrote four or five hundred scripts, of which three hundred were filmed. He said that he was very creative back then, writing a script in three or four days, and at the same time writing seven or eight serialized novels. For example, the script of the Hong Kong film "Jing Wumen" released in 1972, including the fictional protagonist Chen Zhen and the classic scenes in the play, was also written by Ni Kuang.

In April 2012, Ni Kuang won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 31st Hong Kong Film Awards.

In September 2009, in an exclusive interview with the first episode of the RTHK program "Wei Wei Yu", he talked about the reasons for his anti-communism, and he believed that the one-party dictatorship would not work, and that the unlimited expansion of power and the lack of supervision would inevitably corrupt.

In the program, he also believes that it is now a country of bureaucratic capitalism, and the enterprises are in the hands of the children of high-ranking cadres, and he said that bureaucratic capitalism is the most ruthless capitalism, and they will not sympathize with the common people.

He also said that "I would rather be the Mao Zedong era", and also said that the original meaning of "let some people get rich first" should be "those who are partially rich should also take care of the unrich", rather than "those who are rich double their oppression of the poor".

When asked about some people saying that the country must first have economic development before it can talk about democracy, Ni Kuang said that China is different, saying that after China formed a middle class, the wealthy class did not demand political democracy, but turned to totalitarianism more in the hope of obtaining more benefits.

On September 15, 2006, at a symposium, Ni Kuang also said that he had personally experienced many perverse things of the Communist Party, and that the most terrible thing about the Communist Party was that it wanted to control the thoughts and wills of others, and that people would only become completely obedient machines in the Communist Party system, which was very terrifying.

When he moved to the United States in 1992, he was afraid to reclaim Hong Kong, and he said at the time that the Communist Party would not come back until it died. He also said that he had broken his promise now because his wife was not suitable for life in the United States, so he had no choice, he said, "I can't guarantee my old age! 」

Ni Kuang's sister Yishu is a writer of literary novels. Ni Kuang's son, Ni Zhen, was a former radio host, and he and Hong Kong actress Zhou Huimin registered their marriage in December 2008.

Ni Kuang likes to collect shells, and claims that his knowledge of shells has reached the realm of an expert, and he can classify various shells. During the collection period from 1963 to 1979, he collected more than 6,000 species of shells and founded the "Hong Kong Shellfish Society". In the article "Ten Years of Dreaming of Collecting Beibei", he describes the beginning and end of the experience of collecting shellfish.

Ni Kuang once revealed in a newspaper column that he also bought a Hong Kong antenna before the Hong Kong stock market crash in 1973, and as a result, he lost a lot of hard-earned money.

Ni Kuang also helped Jin Yong write some chapters of the martial arts novel "Dragon Babu" serialized in newspapers and magazines, Ni Kuang did not like the character Ah Zi in the book, so he blinded her in writing, so that Jin Yong spent a lot of time to restore Ah Zi's eyes. (To be continued......)